Facebook could address some US antitrust concerns with new photo transfer tool

Facebook developed its data portability tool as a member of the Data Transfer Project – which was formed to allow web users to easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want – and counts Facebook, Alphabet's Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Apple among its contributors. — Reuters

WASHINGTON: Facebook Inc will allow users in the United States and Canada to transfer photos and videos to a rival tech platform for the first time – a step that could assuage antitrust concerns by giving users an option to easily leave the company's services, the social media network said on April 30.

The tool lets Facebook users transfer data stored on its servers directly to another photo storage service, in this case Google Photos – a feature known as data portability.